The Loveyourself Project would like to thank everyone who participated and everyone who helped made the event possible!

Are YOU SEXY?

Then it TIME

KNOW YOUR STATUS!

have a

SEXYTIME with loveyourself Inc.

The
love month may be nearing its end, but we lovers really know how to end things
with a bang!

February
26, 2012 marked another love yourself moment as we conducted SEXY TIME, a
saferotic (safer and erotic) sex summit for men who like men at the Tayuman Commercial
Center.

Spearheading
the pack is TLY Director for Counseling and Education, Chris Lagman and the rest of the TLY-RITM
boys who are now conferred the title Change Agents by the Research Institute
for Tropical Medicine or RITM. Assisting the group are Rossana A. Ditangco, MD
(head of the AIDS Research Group of RITM), renowned trainor Rita Bantigue, PHD
and the medical team

from RITM.

Aside
from lectures about HIV-AIDS, various means of being sexy, intimate and erotic
without exposing one’s self to the risk of getting HIV were also discussed. The
aim of such forum promotes safer sex, without compromising intimacy. And as we
so fondly call it—keeping the fire alive
without getting burned. An assessment of various sexual behaviors among
MSM’s (males having sex with males) were made through focused group discussions
so as to make them more aware of the things they need to do to keep them away
from HIV.

A
total of 48 participants agreed to get tested during the summit, and each
participant was assigned to a particular Change Agent to guide them in making
sure one will be HIV free until the end.

The
night ended with not just with new learning and new friends, but it also paved
the way for some of the participants to join the advocacy in spreading the love
while keeping away from HIV.

Some of the participants have already agreed to
join the next Self Empowerment Training (SET) which is scheduled this coming
March 3&4 and March 10&11. SET
is the first level training for would-be Peer Educators for HIV/AIDS and those
profiled to be Peer Counselors or Change Agents will be endorsed to the next
level training.